This is how I am

Kevin McGahern, comic and presenter

I WAKE every morning at 6am. This is my favourite time of the day, as I know I have at least another four more hours of sleep. Eventually, my alarm sounds, playing Declan Nerney’s Stop the World and Let Me Off. It’s an incredibly annoying song and it’s near-impossible to go back to sleep after that.

I have a shelf beside the bed with a few books and comics. At the moment I’m reading Errol Flynn’s autobiography, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, which is hugely entertaining. It’s refreshing to read a proper bastard wallowing in his own debauched past.

I’m not big into clothes. I tend to dress like a Hawaiian private detective: a lot of colourful shirts and whatever trousers are clean. To get from my home in Rathgar to the RTE studios, I take two buses and a Dublinbike. My working day can consist of anything from writing a